Alternating-current motor.



v. A. HRH.- ALTERNATING GURRENT MOTOR.

v APLELIOATIOR FILED JUNE 1, 1909.

Patented M322, 1910.

5/ Valre A. Fynn UNITED STATES PATE T oFFIo-E.

t immer ALFRED rYNN, orLoNnoN, nnetanbi f issreuon T WAGNER ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY, or ST. LOUIS, mrssooer, A CORPORATION OFMIS- sonar.

v ALTERNATING-CURRE NT MOTOR.

Specification of Letters Eatent. Patented Mar, 22, 1910,

Applicationfiled June 1, 1909. Serial No. 499,463.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, VALisRE ALFRED FY vN, a sub ect of the King of England, residing It has been proposed to make use of threeangularly displaced windings-a, b, and c on the stator of the said motors connecting a with l) for one direction of rotation, and a with 0 for the other direction of rotation,

thus avoiding the necessity of shifting the brushes. The three windings always covered the whole circumference of the stator, each covering one third of it, or one of them covering more than one third while each of the twov others covered a correspondingly smaller space. I have discovered that a fractional pitch Winding on the secondary member has certain valuable advantages, and it isthe object of my invention toso modify the stator winding above referred to as to make it equally effective in combination with a fractional pitch winding on the secondary or induced member. 4

The accompanying drawing shows diagrammatically a two pole self-eXcited-series induction motor embodying my invention.

The revolving induced member is (31 and carries a continuous current fractional pitch winding, disposed in 36 slots with two conductors per slot. The winding pitch is supposed to be-about of the pole pitch. Assum ng the brushes 62, 63 short-circuited by conductor (ii, to be bearing directly on the commuted winding, then the current distribution in the conductors will be approxi mately as indicated by the circles and dots near the rotor periphery. .lu practice a commutator would of course be used, but this would not alter the currentdistribution in any way, although the space position of the brushes relatively to the stator windings inay thereby be altered as is well understood. It is seen that the ampere turns in slots l'to 6 inclusive and 19 to 2 inclusive I prefer to designate are neutralized owing to the fractional pitch. and that efl ective ampere turns only appear within the angles DOF and COE. '1 may dispose my three stator windings so as to span approximately the same angles. One of these stator windings is 65, 66 andis disposed coaxially with the brush line AOB; another stator winding is 67, 68 and is displaced with respect to the first; the third stator winding is 69, 70 and is displaced 'Wlilh respect to each of the others.

ing which is coaxial with the brush axis is made to span the greater part of the active belts within DOF and COE, the two others are symmetrically disposed on each side of the first and span smaller but equal parts of the, active belts. All three windings are connected together at one end by a common conductor 71; one end of the larger winding 65, 66 is directly connected to the main 76; the ends of the other two windings are connected to the points 72 and 7 3 of a two way switch 74, by means of which" either po1nt may be connected to main 75. The direction of rotation is determined by switch 74. If it stands on 7 2 the motor revolves in one direction, if it stands on 73 it revolves in the opposite direction.

Assume switch 74 to be standing on point 72, then winding 69, 70 is out'of circuit and the active stator winding only spans the angles COK and HOE, inducing in the rotor at current distributed as shown by dots and circles. It is seen at once that the whole of the flux set up by the rotor ampere turns within the angles CGK and HOF, except-of course the leakage flux due to these ampere turns, will be directly neutralized by the coaxial ampere turns in the active inducing winding on the stator. The rotor ampere turns in slots 7 to 9 inclusive and 25 to 27 inclusive, produce a magnetization which is neither coaxial nor at right angles to the active stator winding. Those ampere Within the angles CO1 and FOG which are partly neutrahzed and partly responsible for the motor field.

By means of the arrangement described, I secure among other advantages the very important one of producing the motor field by means of part of the ampere turns induced in the rotor, hence I refer to this motor as self-excited. I further reduce the rimary and secondary leakage to the smallest possible value by providing that all the rotor ampere turns, which are not required for producing the motor field, are neutralized by stator ampere turns situated in closest proximity thereto, and by providingthat those rotor ampere turns' which are neutralized by the fact that a fractional pitch is used on that member, are not in close proximity to any stator windings.

The number of rotor exciting ampere turns can be controlled, for instance, by increasing or decreasingthe span of stator windings 65, 66 relatively to the span of the two others, the sum of the arcs spanned by the three always remaining substantially equal to the sum of the arcs spanned by the active rotor conductors.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. In a motor, the combination wit-ha rotor provided with a fractional pole pitch winding short-circuited by means of brushes along a stationary axis, of a stator provided with amain winding and two auxiliary windings adapted to cooperate with said main winding, the sum of the arcs spanned by said inain and auxiliary windings corresponding to the sum of the arcs spanned by the active rotor conductors, and means for cutting one or the other of said auxiliary windings out of eiiective operation.

2'. In a motor, the combination with a rotor provided with-a fractional pole pitch winding short-circuited by means of brushes along a stationary axis, of a stator provided with a main winding and two auxiliary windings each spanning a smaller arc than the main winding and adapted to cooperate with said main winding, the sum of the arcs spanned by said main and auxiliary windings corresponding to the sum of the arcs winding, the sum of the arcs spanned by said main and auxiliary windings corresponding to the sum of the arcs spanned by the active rotor conductors, and means for cutting one or the other of said auxiliary windings out of effective operation, the stator windings being all connected together at one end.

4:. In a motor, the combination with a rotor provided with a fractional pole pitch winding short-circuited by means of brushes along a stationary axis, of a stator provided with a main winding and two auxiliary windings adapted to cooperate with said main winding, the sum of the arcs spanned by said main and auxiliary windings corresponding to the sum of the arcs spanned by the active rotor conductors, and a switch for cutting one or the other of said" auxiliary windings out of eifective operation.

In an electric motor, a member r0- vided with a fractional pole pitch Win mg, a second member provided with a main winding permanent y in circuit and composed of a plurality of diametricall opposite sections, auxiliary windings or said member and each composed of a, plurality of sections situated between the sections of said main winding, and means for cutting one or the other of said auxiliary windings into effective operation, the sum of the arcs spanned by said main and auxiliary windings corresponding to the sum of the arcs spanned by the active conductors on the first named member.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and afiixed my seal in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses.

VALERE ALFRED FYNN [1. 3.]

\Vitnesses:

ELIZABETH BAILEY, E. E. I'IUFFMAN. 

